Centrifugal force is the apparent force that pushes things away from the center of a spinning object. It makes objects feel like they are being pushed outwards when they are actually just moving in a curved path due to the object's rotation.
Sentences with «centrifugal force»
In 1958 ground controllers tracking the first American satellite, Explorer 1, noted that its path faithfully traced the planet's equatorial bulge (created by centrifugal forces generated by the planet's rotation). (discovermagazine.com)
cap plies Designed to counter the extreme centrifugal forces of a tire moving at 1,000 rpm, the cap plies are made of two layers of nylon. (discovermagazine.com)
Though completely nonrepresentational, her works are borne out of her interest in centrifugal forces in portraits. (mocajacksonville.unf.edu)